"Chookie" > wrote in message
news:ehrebeniuk-E315F7.13481002022003@news...
> In article >,
> "Janet" > wrote:
>
> > Can someone please give me some idea on how to keep fruit fly from
ruining
> > my capsicums.
>
> Fruit fly usually appear in my back yard from January, so I use these
methods:
>
> * avoid growing things that fruit fly eat, if you can (I plant tomatoes
> because you can't get decent ones at the shops). I suppose I am asking if
you
> really want to grow capsicum.
>
> * grow varieties that fruit fly aren't keen on (eg cherry tomatoes -- and
they
> haven't gone for my mini capsicum either).
>
> * plant early-cropping varieties (though I'm not sure this is possible in
> Hervey Bay -- do you get them all year round?)
>
> * Practice good garden hygiene -- remove blown fruit, tie up in plastic
bag
> and leave in sunshine before composting, or toss in garbage.
>
> * Spray with pyrethrum
>
> * Spray with stronger stuff and hang baits.
>
> I have a toddler so I am avoiding spraying/baiting. Fortunately the
> unseasonally low humidity seems to have kept them away this year.
> Unfortunately it's also meant that the tomatoes don't bear very well!

Would using plastic bags help? I don't like spraying either. It's onerous
work, I know.

In article >,
"Gabra" > wrote:

> Would using plastic bags help? I don't like spraying either. It's onerous
> work, I know.

Maybe paper bags would be better -- people use them on mango trees.

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